Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.

Plot and melodrama were in every life; in some so briefly as hardly to be recognized, in others-in that of certain men and women in the public eye, for instance-they were almost in the nature of a continuous performance.

Nowhere can it rain harder and with a more tiresome persistence than in California during the brief season when it rains at all.

The French are a race of individuals. There is no type.

there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.

... France is the genius among nations.

I am a Californian, and we have twice the individuality and originality of any people in the United States. We always get quite huffy when we are spoken of as merely Americans.